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makalani bandele is the author of under the aegis of a winged mind (Autumn House Press, 2020), winner of the 2019 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize. He is an MFA in Poetry candidate at the University of Kentucky and resides in Lexington, Kentucky.

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“I loves me some non-representation. From sculpture to jazz to poetry, I gots to have it in all the Arts. Lately, I have been experimenting with abstraction in photography, and this poem is a member of a cadre of mixed media ekphrastic experiments where the poem is in conversation with one of my non-representational photographs. Linguistically and typographically speaking, I told Maury that Douglas Kearney’s work is this poem’s baby dada poetics, even if he don’t claim his child. There is a saying in African American Vernacular English, ‘go for what you know.’ And I know many African American communities are victim to environmental racism, and I know we don’t talk enough about the intersection of Global Warming, White Supremacy, and its engine: capitalism.”
—makalani bandele

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sample collected from a superfund site

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